Notices by abrasive (abrasive@digipres.club)

@foone don't forget to make it not work without data it downloads from twitter at runtime

@foone I don't suppose that's a 1mm pitch on that thar LCD connector? if the LCD frame is friendly you could stick a 1mm FFC under there and poke the other end into a breakout eg. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005319261974.html

@foone could you use a zebra strip and mush an 0.5mm pitch FFC down on it? though that's probably harder than directly soldering an FFC to the QFP pads

@foone if a doctor offered me the chance to customise my panic you best believe I'd be all over that

@foone why does nobody seem to have a wee parametric solver CAD that lets you say "this edge of this pad is so-and-so mm from that edge of that hole" so that you can directly input datasheet drawings rather than having to faff around with a calculator and make mistakes?

@foone I swear footprints take up 90% of my energy during any design and I hate it
although to be fair parts selection/ordering is the other 70% that I hate

@foone I don't suppose they are called ACME

@foone to fill you with a subtle sense of dread - when you press it and nothing _obviously_ happens? but something feels different

@foone I reckon you could fit an MS2130 HDMI-USB3 chip and a little OTG micro into a Framework expansion card? might have to use micro-HDMI but

obviously the logical conclusion of this is to have a camera and a keyboard-poking arm on the back of the laptop screen

@foone oh my lord this is such a glorious idea - since apparently we will never solve criminally bad UI/UX :'(

the thing is I'd still use it even if it took me way longer to configure and debug than the time it would have taken to do by hand! apparently that is more acceptable to my adhd's frustration limits

@foone I love that it has a pressure gauge! I wonder if it also came with a can of Freon to top it up like the old Tektronix HV probes?

would anyone in the continental USA be kind enough to receive and rip a CD for me?

@foone this was my take on a keyboard prototyping rig - I made wee boards with a diode, a hotswap socket, and two IDC terminals on each. Print the shell, snap the keys in the front, stick the boards on the back, then punch down row and column wires to the boards. Cheaper/faster to iterate than PCBs, and open to 3d designs, but I didn't have the official punchdown tool and it'd throw a wire every now and then...